Award-winning author for young readers Han Nolan tells a powerful coming-of-age story in this 352-page novel about race, youth and friendship. Fourteen-year-old Pip tries to strike up a romance with a black teen accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, and winds up learning valuable lessons instead. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement, the story culminates on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington, where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.